[CW-Grad] Joe Powers' "Taxi Dance" get a new production

[Leonid Leonov]

Congratulations, Joe! Looking forward to it.

Leonid

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Robin Russin <robin.russin at ucr.edu> wrote:

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> visit their website: http://www.commongroundtheatre.org/
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> Schedule of Upcoming Events
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> *Monday, September 27, 2010 6-9pm
> Third Annual “This Is Gaffney” **Fundraiser
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> *  Friday, December 3, 2010 - Sunday, December 19, 2010
> Black Nativity by Langston Hughes *
>   Black Nativity, music and lyrics by Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley,
> recounts the birth, suffering, death and redemption of Christ as told in
> Biblical stories from both Old and New Testaments. The story is glorious,
> humble and very spectacular told through musical selections from traditional
> to up-tempo contemporary. It was first performed on Broadway on December 11,
> 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do
> so.
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> *Friday, February 4, 2011 Sunday, February 20, 2011
> ****A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller *
>   Common Ground commemorates the 30th anniversary of The Negro Ensemble
> Company's Off-Broadway production of A Soldier's Play. It originally opened
> November 20,1981 and ran for 468 performances. While it is about the
> investigation of a murder, A Soldier's Play is not a murder mystery in the
> strictest sense. It is the story of a murder investigation in a segregated
> Louisiana Army camp, where one man exposes the devastating effects of racism
> and self-hatred. This powerful, Pulitzer prize winning drama of World War II
> era explores the history of America's legacy of racism.
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> *Friday, April 22 - Sunday, May 8, 2011
> **Taxi Dance by Joe Powers World Premiere *
>   Taxi Dance is an offbeat love story painted on the backdrop of what was
> once a beautiful dime-a-dance hall; now a forlorn palace where men can rent
> a dancer for thirty-five cents a minute – plus tips. Gone with its beauty is
> its heart. It's a place where broken dreams meet, converse, play themselves
> out and then return to that receptacle of yearning – that place in the back
> of the mind or heart where they can remain until the next time it is safe to
> air them out. On this particular night Betty's life flashes before her and
> she finds herself perplexed and frightened. She looks to her younger
> counterpart for redemption only to find frustration. As the night unfolds
> Betty looks for a way back to her dreams and her once youthful hope and
> passion. Ultimately she learns that even though dreams do not always come
> true . . . there is always hope and of course – tomorrow.
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> Click here for a press release on the musical and Artistic Director,
> Hassan El-Amin
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> Click here for Group Sales opportunities for San Diego area churches
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> The Blue Trunk Theatre Company
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> Cody Powers Films:  http://web.me.com/codypowers/codypowersfilms/home.html
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>    Robin Russin
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> Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
> Director, MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
> University of California, Riverside
> Riverside, CA 92521
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